IHDD receives $410,000 grant
UGA’s Institute on Human Development and Disability, in partnership with the national Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered organization, has been awarded a grant for more than $410,000 from the Corporation for National Service to make the inclusion of adults with cognitive disabilities in national service a reality.
The grant, organized as the Everyone Can Serve! Project, will assist national service program directors to encourage greater participation of people with disabilities in their programs, and provide information about opportunities for national service to self-advocates with cognitive disabilities.
Activities and products of the project will be developed and piloted in Georgia during the first year and expanded to additional Southern states the second year.
The project will be directed by Katie Ford, who presently directs the IHDD’s Georgia PAS Corps/AmeriCorps project, with support from Jenny Manders and other IHDD staff and national leaders of self-advocacy organizations.
“The award of this grant is a reflection on IHDD’s inclusive projects,” says Ford. “We include self-advocates with cognitive disabilities in all our projects and on our consumer council. Self-advocates have been involved with the development of this grant since its inception. They will be co-coordinators of this project, assisting in all aspects of the project’s implementation. The project will enable us to show others in the South how our inclusive policies benefit all people.”
Libraries preserve black TV programs
A project to preserve television programs documenting African-American history since 1949 has been completed at the UGA libraries.
More than 1,100 television programs dating from 1949 to the present that document African-American history and culture have been cataloged, preserved and made accessible to faculty, students, researchers and the public at the UGA Libraries Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. This project was funded in part by a $96,590 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities with additional support provided by the libraries.
One reason this project is of such importance is many of the titles are the only known surviving copies of these programs and, prior to the archives’ preservation actions, they existed only in the outdated format in which they were originally submitted to the Peabody Awards decades ago, according to Ruta Abolins, director of the media archives.
The programs, all part of the Peabody Awards Collection, were collected over the past half-century from national networks and local stations across the country. Included are
a 1949 local special on Baltimore’s slums, national and local news programs from the civil rights era and recent documentaries on Malcolm X and Henry Aaron. The project involved preservation of the physical artifacts and the programs’ contents, bibliographic and physical access to the programs and repatriation of copies of the programs to their originating stations.
A full listing of titles and more information on the project is available on the Web at www.libs.uga.edu/peabody/wlcmafam.html.
Three students receive Laerm Awards
The Georgia Museum of Natural History has given its third annual Joshua Laerm Academic Support Awards to Chris Faggioni, Tricia Michele Rodriguez and Lisa Marie Kruse. The awards recognize outstanding research efforts by graduate and undergraduate students.
Faggioni, an undergraduate in the Institute of Ecology, requested support to conduct research under the direction of Peter Daszak on the presence of a frog pathogen in a long-term, stable population.
Rodriguez, who will also conduct research under Daszak’s direction, will look at the impact of disease on the feeding activities of tadpoles.
Kruse, a doctoral student in the botany department, will perform a floristic survey along the main corridor of the upper Etowah River in northern Georgia.
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